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Public Works Worker Position Opening

        JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

City of Ferndale

PUBLIC WORKS WORKER

Beginning salary: $3929.00 to $4,427.00 per month

The Public Works Worker serves as member the City's Public Works crew and performs a wide variety of jobs involving heavy equipment operation; maintenance of water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, streets, parks, City property and City buildings; development inspections; water meter reading and repair; and vehicle and equipment repair. The Utility Worker also responds to emergencies and helps respond to Public Works related complaints, questions, or other matters.

Work is performed indoors and outdoors during all weather conditions during daylight hours and at night in emergencies. The work is in a high-risk environment that requires special safety precautions around heavy equipment operation; possible contact with human waste and blood-borne pathogens; and prolonged physical efforts within confined spaces.  Emergency service call-outs may involve floods; snow removal; emergency repair to streets, parks, the water and sewer system; and other problems in all weather conditions with proximity to traffic, heavy operating equipment, and other hazards.

A preferred candidate will have three to five years of building, craft, trade, or other public works related construction and equipment operation experience and will be expected to have a working knowledge of heavy equipment operation including backhoes, bulldozers, loaders and dump trucks.  Experience in concrete work, asphalt placement and patching, and water and sewer pipeline systems is ideal. Applicants should also demonstrate excellent teamwork and communications skills.  The completion of a high school level education (as evidenced by a diploma or GED) or its equivalent will be required. There will be knowledge and physical testing.

Application packets may be obtained online or at Ferndale City Hall in the Public Works Department, located at 2095 Main Street, Ferndale, Washington 98248. Interested persons should submit a City of Ferndale Application for Employment, Physical Testing Liability Waiver, Supplemental Questionnaire and Resume to the Ferndale Public Works Department, no later than 5 p.m. Friday, January 17, 2012.

Online documents:

Application

Supplemental Questionnaire

Physical Testing Liability Waiver

*Remember: Please include resume with full employment application packet.

 The City of Ferndale is an Equal Opportunity Employer.